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James Bradley's Landfall reveals a flooded, baked and dilapidated city
Manage episode 478741479 series 5464
Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, promise, generations, and misunderstandings
BOOKS
James Bradley, Landfall, Penguin
Josephine Rowe, Little World, Black Inc
Tash Aw, The South, Fourth Estate
GUESTS
Tegan Bennett-Daylight, novelist, teacher, and essayist, whose books include Bombora, What Falls Away, and The Details. Her latest, How to Survive 1985, is a YA novel that will be published in May
Rosa Ellen, producer and presenter with Radio National’s Arts team
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDWilla Cather, worksDavid Szalay, FleshGretchen Shirm, Out of the Woods Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
CREDITS
- Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
- Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Craig Tilmouth and Isabella Tropiano
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
503 episodes
Manage episode 478741479 series 5464
Cities that are both flooded and on alert for the next storm in James Bradley’s Landfall. The body of a saint, dreamily and weirdly listening to everyone around her in Western Australia, in Josephine Rowe’s Little World. And from Malaysia, Tash Aw's The South, in which a family has left the city to head to a failing orchard, a story of longing, promise, generations, and misunderstandings
BOOKS
James Bradley, Landfall, Penguin
Josephine Rowe, Little World, Black Inc
Tash Aw, The South, Fourth Estate
GUESTS
Tegan Bennett-Daylight, novelist, teacher, and essayist, whose books include Bombora, What Falls Away, and The Details. Her latest, How to Survive 1985, is a YA novel that will be published in May
Rosa Ellen, producer and presenter with Radio National’s Arts team
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONEDWilla Cather, worksDavid Szalay, FleshGretchen Shirm, Out of the Woods Yuko Tsushima, Territory of Light Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Kappa Kazuo Ishiguro, A Pale View of Hills
CREDITS
- Presenter, Kate Evans and Cassie McCullagh
- Producer, Kate Evans and Sarah Corbett
- Sound engineer, Craig Tilmouth and Isabella Tropiano
- Executive producer, Rhiannon Brown
503 episodes
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